REPAIRMEN MAY GYP YOU-1951
"For six months," says The Neiv York Herald Tribune, "the two authors of this perturbing little volume made a nationwide investigation of the higher nature, if any, of the American repairman. Buying a used car of distinguished make, they engaged the assistance of a lady who looked more helpless than she was, and traveled 19,000 miles, with 1,700 calls on repair shops." "And no one," adds the Boston Post, "could ever pass this book with indifference Whatever your experience with repairmen may have been, you'll find its counterpart here. You will point it out with great satisfaction, and you'll say: 'There! That's exactly what happened to me once.' And you're lucky if it has happened only once. The Post can't think of any subject for research that touches more people. Buy this book, and you will get your money back, over and over, in amounts saved through your wisdom." "There are some amusing stories in it," says the Baltimore Sun, and the Washington Post thinks that the funniest were "the authors' experiences with the Rube Goldberg testing machines used by some shops to impress customers." "The articles in The Reader's Digest were interesting," remarks the Springfield Republican, "but they left room for doubt. The book, however, with details of the almost laboratory caution used by the authors in making their tests, is alarmingly convincing."
"For six months," says The Neiv York Herald Tribune,
"the two authors of this perturbing little volume made a
nationwide investigation of the higher nature, if any, of the
American repairman. Buying a used car of distinguished
make, they engaged the assistance of a lady who looked
more helpless than she was, and traveled 19,000 miles, with
1,700 calls on repair shops."
"And no one," adds the Boston Post, "could ever pass
this book with indifference Whatever your experience with
repairmen may have been, you'll find its counterpart here.
You will point it out with great satisfaction, and you'll say:
'There! That's exactly what happened to me once.' And
you're lucky if it has happened only once. The Post can't
think of any subject for research that touches more people.
Buy this book, and you will get your money back, over and
over, in amounts saved through your wisdom."
"There are some amusing stories in it," says the Baltimore
Sun, and the Washington Post thinks that the funniest were
"the authors' experiences with the Rube Goldberg testing
machines used by some shops to impress customers."
"The articles in The Reader's Digest were interesting,"
remarks the Springfield Republican, "but they left room
for doubt. The book, however, with details of the almost
laboratory caution used by the authors in making their tests,
is alarmingly convincing."
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wouldn't rattle, and your generator was about to<br />
fall<br />
off." That was their complete diagnosis of<br />
our trouble.<br />
CASE 251. Dallas, Texas. This garage has a large<br />
repair shop. I showed our club membership<br />
card and said I'd come here because I'd get<br />
more dependable service if<br />
I went to official garages<br />
when I had trouble. The superintendent<br />
called the mechanic, who pulled the car over by<br />
the window and lifted the hood. I went down<br />
and waited an hour and a half in the lounging<br />
room every minute expecting the car would be<br />
ready. Finally they said it was done, and the<br />
office man made out the bill. "Did you ever have<br />
that motor tuned up?" he asked. "Well,<br />
it was<br />
reconditioned not long ago. And it was running<br />
perfectly, just as fine as a car could run, until<br />
about twenty miles out of Dallas it went bad all<br />
of a sudden."<br />
"Well, our work comes to $7.16." I requested<br />
an itemized bill. He made it out and told me:<br />
"We had to exchange your distributor, but because<br />
you are club members we're giving you 25<br />
per cent off on the parts." "What did the tuning
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